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May 7, 2012
PBA: Blame NYPD For Ticket Quotas; Cops Unfairly Targeted by Internal Affairs
In an unusual public push-back at Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, the city's police officers union ran an ad in today's Daily News, attacking the department for pressuring officers to hit quotas and then punishing them if their tickets are tossed from traffic court. "Don't blame the cop," the Patrol ... More >>
Columns
May 2, 2012
Will Mayor Ray Kelly Watch Over Us?
Does the commish think he can stop-and-frisk the public schools into shape?
Blogs
April 20, 2012
More Mayoral Hopefuls Weigh in on the Ray Kelly Rumors: He Has a Great Record!
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said today that if the Ray Kelly running for mayor rumors turn out to be true, the dynamics of the mayoral race would certainly change. And some candidates gearing up for their campaigns are probably afraid of that, Stringer, an expected contender himself, ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2012
Mayoral Hopefuls on Possible Mayoral Bid of Ray Kelly: He's a Good Police Commissioner
Asked today about rumors that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly might be interested in running for mayor in 2013, several mayoral hopefuls chimed in -- but would only say that he's good at his current job. The New York Post reported today that a top state Republican is pushing Kelly to run for mayor a ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2012
Richard Breunich, JP Morgan Executive, Has Carte Blanche At NYPD Headquarters
A top executive at the investment bank JP Morgan Chase has special access to police headquarters, the Voice has learned. The mystery is why. Most of us regular folks have to go through a ridiculous security screening process just to get into 1 Police Plaza (a public building, by the way), including ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2012
Ray Kelly Warns Cops: Look Out For Those Handcuff Key Bracelets
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is warning cops about rope bracelets containing hidden handcuff keys, according to an internal NYPD memo obtained by the Voice. Kelly sent out photos of the product to all commands earlier this week. The key is plastic, so it won't set off metal detectors. He says pris ... More >>
Columns
February 29, 2012
The Constitution Versus Ray Kelly
A new coalition is ready to take its fight to the commissioner
Blogs
February 9, 2012
New Yorkers Think Ray Kelly Is a Great Guy, Like to Shame One Another Publicly: Poll
New Yorkers think that Ray Kelly is just swell and really like to embarrass one another, according to a new poll. Indeed, the stats suggest that many city-dwellers are a strange bunch. Even though Kelly appeared in an Islamophobic vid used for cop training, most New Yorkers don't think the NYPD is ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Mike Bloomberg: Police Commissioner Ray Kelly Should Not Step Down
Bombarded by questions about the controversies (yes, plural) developing around Ray Kelly, Mayor Mike Bloomberg told reporters this afternoon that the police commissioner should not step down. In case you missed it, news surfaced this week that the New York Police Department showed around 1,500 off ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Ray Kelly, Spokesman Browne On Hot Seat In Anti-Islam Movie Fallout
In more fallout from "film gate"--the NYPD's decision to show a controversial anti-Islam film to cops at an anti-terror training center--Mayor Bloomberg says it showed "terrible judgment," and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly admitted he gave an interview to the filmmakers, and called it a mista ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2012
Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Has to Remind Cops to Take Criminal Complaints
More than a year after revelations in this newspaper and others media outlets about police under-reporting of crime complaints, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has taken the unusual step of actually reminding cops that they can't ignore civilians who want to report a crime. A department order issued ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2011
Cops Are Arresting Fewer Folks for Tiny Amounts of Weed
This would count as "illegal."Back in September Police Commissioner Ray Kelly issued an internal order telling cops to stop arresting people for minuscule amounts of pot found in their pockets or in bags (i.e., not in public view). This was in part due to claims of wrongful arrests and the st ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2011
Video of Ray Kelly's Columbia Heckling
Remember how Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was heckled by Occupy protesters at Columbia this week? There's now video of the incident online, via Democracy Now! reporter Ryan Devereaux.
Blogs
November 29, 2011
Ray Kelly Heckled at Columbia Class by Protesters
Things seem to have gone off the rails in former mayor David Dinkins's urban public policy class at Columbia tonight, where Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was the visiting guest along with federal judge George Daniels and Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance Jr. According to Bwog, Kelly was speaking when student ... More >>
News
November 16, 2011
Ray Kelly's Gulag
Get on the NYPD commissioner's secret list, and you're going nowhere
Blogs
November 4, 2011
Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Under Fire Over Corruption Cases
Over the past few weeks, one scandal after another has hit the police department, making things increasingly uncomfortable for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his top advisors, and the accretion of negative news has some people arguing for change in the department's leadership. Such a rema ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2011
Ray Kelly Puts NYPD Quota Demands in Writing; Rank And File Not Happy [Updated]
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has issued an intriguing new order to the NYPD which appears to finally put the unwritten quota policy into writing, adds yet another layer of paperwork to the street cop's job, and brings department micromanaging to a new level of insanity. Titled "Police Offic ... More >>
Columns
October 19, 2011
Ray Kelly Versus the First Amendment--On My Street
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has issued an intriguing new order to the NYPD which appears to finally put the unwritten quota policy into writing, adds yet another layer of paperwork to the street cop's job, and brings department micromanaging to a new level of insanity. Titled "Police Offic ... More >>
Columns
October 5, 2011
Spinning Out of Control
Paul Browne's mouth finally starts getting him into trouble
Blogs
September 28, 2011
Ray Kelly: NYPD 'Will Look' Into Occupy Wall Street Pepper-Spraying
Pressure has been mounting for the NYPD to do something about the pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy Wall Street protesters on Saturday. If you haven't seen it yet, there's video above (and also a new one out today) of a cop who's since been identified as Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna pepper-sp ... More >>
Blogs
September 25, 2011
Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance Responds to the Big NYPD Marijuana News
Drug Policy AllianceEthan Nadelmann is the founder and Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance. Interviews with DPA staff and data from DPA reports were used through out this week's Voice feature, "White Mayor's Burden." We spoke with Nadelmann after the stunning news from WNYC that t ... More >>
Blogs
September 25, 2011
NYPD Tells the Voice Marijuana Order Will Apply to All Police, Not Just "Uniformed" Cops
Rickard BlommengrenPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly's memo ordering the NYPD to stop arresting people for low level marijuana possession not in plain view will apply to "all police officers," not just "uniformed members of the service," the Voice has learned. When WNYC broke the story about Ke ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2011
Ray Kelly Finally Does the Right Thing with Weed Arrests
After a decade of aggressively using stop and frisks to produce hundreds of thousands of bogus marijuana arrests, Commissioner Ray Kelly seems to have belatedly reversed course, judging from an internal memo.
Blogs
July 19, 2011
Ray Kelly: NYPD Will Eye New Midtown Traffic Cameras
Privacy? That's so 20th Century. "We certainly monitor the traffic cameras," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told me today, when I asked him about the 32 video cameras and E-ZPass readers placed throughout Midtown as part of the real-time traffic system Mayor Bloomberg unveiled yesterday, with ... More >>
Blogs
July 5, 2011
Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Where Are the Results of That Review on the Crime Statistics?
In January, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly promised to release the results of what he called an independent examination of the city's crime statistics. He said the effort by three former federal prosecutors would take six months. Well, it's been exactly six months, and still no word from ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2011
Ray Kelly, NYPD Commissioner, Loves a Good Tie, Hoodie
Today's edition of Women's Wear Daily profiles the style of a somewhat unlikely fashion character, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. On a night out on the East River, Kelly sports "a charcoal Martin Greenfield hand-tailored suit" with a "Charvet tie, so pink it practically reflects the faraway P ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
James Stafford and Brice Farrell Attempt 3 a.m. Climb of Williamsburg Bridge, Are Busted
It happens with some regularity. Someone calling himself an "urban explorer" will attempt to climb a New York City bridge under cover of night -- or, more obviously, in broad daylight -- to explore "urbanly," and to capture it in film and/or photographs. This happened last night. Our culprits ... More >>
Columns
March 30, 2011
Beware: Ray Kelly for Next FBI Director?
It happens with some regularity. Someone calling himself an "urban explorer" will attempt to climb a New York City bridge under cover of night -- or, more obviously, in broad daylight -- to explore "urbanly," and to capture it in film and/or photographs. This happened last night. Our culprits ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2011
Read the Voice, Get High
Today in unexpected uses for the Village Voice: Drug mule! (Sort of.) Via the New York Post, we've learned that two "drug dealerships" offering pot and "low-cost but high-grade cocaine" left their business cards in Voice issues distributed in the East Village and the Lower East Side. This see ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2011
Ray Kelly Appoints Former Federal Prosecutors to Investigate Crime Stats
In even more fallout from the Village Voice's "NYPD Tapes" series, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has now appointed a committee of three former federal prosecutors to investigate whether crime stats are being manipulated. The move, reported by the Associated Press, appears to be the lates ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2010
Ray Kelly, Hounded by Voice Revelations, To Revamp NYPD Handling of Sex Crime Complaints
Eight months after the Voice's NYPD Tapes series began revealing widespread manipulation of crime statistics — including the downgrading of rape complaints that in at least one case allowed a predator to continue his assaults — a commission appointed by Police Commissioner Ray Kel ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2010
Ray Kelly to NYPD Cops: No More Loitering Arrests
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly issued an order this week telling cops that they can't arrest people for loitering anymore. The loitering statute was actually struck down way back in 1983 by a federal judge, whose opinion was bolstered by subsequent rulings which found the law unconstitutional ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2010
Ray Kelly's Publicity Piggy Bank: The Police Foundation
In what is a fairly shocking disclosure, Leonard Levitt's NYPD Confidential reports today that the Police Foundation has spent $400,000 on a publicist who spent most of his time flacking for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and introducing him to celebrities and rich folks and get onto that red ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2010
Ray Kelly's Harvard Club Membership Fees, Food Paid by Non-Profit Police Foundation (Updated)
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly gets his annual $1,500 membership dues at the fancy Harvard Club paid for by the non-profit Police Foundation, Leonard Levitt's blog One Police Plaza Confidential is reporting. That alone is fairly controversial because regular street cops, as Levitt notes, aren ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2010
Mystery Unfolds Regarding Explosives in East Village's Marble Cemetery
Sergio HernandezThe story of the explosives found today in the East Village's New York City Marble Cemetery at 2nd Street keeps getting weirder. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly just gave a press conference that explained, to some degree, how explosives would end up in such unlikely a bomb-spot ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2010
Murders Up 17 Percent, NYPD Crime Stats Show
Periodically, we here at Runnin Scared take a look at the city's crime statistics. Well, almost three quarters of the way through the year, crime citywide is at about the same level as it was this time last year. But murders are up 17 percent. And, in all, six of the seven major crime categor ... More >>
News
June 29, 2010
Ray 'Stop-and-Frisk' Kelly for Mayor?
When will New Yorkers see past Kelly's personal charm and notice his thuggish methods?
Blogs
June 14, 2010
Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Makes Change To Stop and Frisk Policy
For the second time in a month, the Police Department has issued new orders surrounding the Stop and Frisk campaign. The change comes in the wake of the Village Voice's NYPD Tapes series, which reported that officers were doing stop and frisks to hit quotas, reported that people were being ... More >>
Blogs
June 4, 2010
Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, and Brooklyn Councilman Al Vann Butt Heads Over 'NYPD Tapes' Series
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and City Councilman Al Vann had a tense exchange yesterday at City Hall over the fallout stemming from the Village Voice series, "The NYPD Tapes." New York Times police bureau chief Al Baker reports on the clash here. During a City Council budget meeting, Vann, ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2010
Two Slashed to Death in Subway Melee; Motive? A Tossed Trash Bag
View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 5:10 a.m. LOCATION: The 1 Train at at Varick Street and Houston Street, Lower Manhattan. Well, with all the hubbub over the jump in the murder rate, Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly can't be too happy about this one: two relatively ... More >>
News
February 16, 2010
Bloomberg and Kelly's School Vigilantes Get Failing Grades in a New Lawsuit
View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 5:10 a.m. LOCATION: The 1 Train at at Varick Street and Houston Street, Lower Manhattan. Well, with all the hubbub over the jump in the murder rate, Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly can't be too happy about this one: two relatively ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2010
Commissioner Ray Kelly: NYPD heard about the 9/11 trials the day they were publicly announced
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told an auditorium full of Young Republicans yesterday that the NYPD was never consulted by the Justice Department about the 9/11 trials. In a speech to the New York Young Republican Club, Kelly said that neither he nor Mayor Bloomberg were told that the trials w ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2010
NYPD Gang Cops Get Serious About Gangs -- In Bermuda
Talk about a cushy assignment! It would appear that the NYPD has agreed to send gang intelligence investigators to the lavish resort island of Bermuda to help out the cops there. Who arranged this posh retreat? Why, according to Bermuda's paper of record, it was Mayor Michael Bloomberg h ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2009
Ray Kelly: 2009 May Be New York's Lowest Major-Crime Year Since 1963
In remarks prepared for today's graduation exercises for NYPD cadets at the Beacon Theater, Commission Ray Kelly announces that he expects 2009's final stats will show not only a decline in major crime (murder, rape, robbery etc) for the 19th straight year, but possibly New York's lowest major crime ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2009
NYPD announces streamlined DWI testing rules
Commissioner Ray Kelly has announced a set of procedures to compel blood alcohol content testing in a timely fashion if a DWI suspect refuses to be tested. Kelly's hand was forced by a number of recent high-profile cases - some resulting in pedestrian deaths - in which off-duty police officer ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2009
Homeland Security money is, and maybe isn't, coming to midtown
Per the AP, Mike Bloomberg and Ray Kelly are expected to announce today that the feds are providing $24 million to install the "ring of steel" surveillance cameras in midtown Commissioner Kelly announced plans for in April. Kelly initially requested $21 million, but said the cost could rise to $28 m ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2009
NYPD Still Mum On Logo Crackdown, Retirees Not so Mum
It's now been 24 hours since the Voice asked Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's spokesman Paul Browne for a comment on the NYPD's campaign to stop its own retirees from using the department logo. (See our story here.) No response. Not even an acknowledgement that the emails were received. We've now as ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2009
Follow-Up: Ejected Police Press Get Place to Plug In Laptops
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's amended proposal to house reporters stationed at 1 Police Plaza in an auditorium -- he had originally thrown them out on their ears -- is getting panned in media circles. Kelly first planned to boot reporters on July 31, to make way for a glossy new anti-terror cente ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2009
NYPD to Press: Fuck Off (Updated)
Police commissioner Ray Kelly has decided to eject reporters from police headquarters -- a move that ends decades of tradition and may be one of the most egregious assaults on freedom of the press and the First Amendment in years. In a letter dated April 10, Kelly told managing editors of the Times ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2009
Ray Kelly Feels the Obama Love
While bold-faced names toasted the Obama inauguration in Washington, star-struck police commissioner Ray Kelly held a little fete of his own today on city time at police headquarters. Kelly invited members of the bloated headquarters staff down to the room where he gives press conf ... More >>
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